Sample Sentences for
illicit
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    You do receive illicit love letters, Count?  (source)
    illicit = improper
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    Lately, he'd been keeping an eye on ISIS's involvement in the illicit antiquities trade, which is why he requested a crash meeting the day after the bomb exploded in Paris.  (source)
    illicit = illegal
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    The verb Inspector Supervisor Skaaiat used implied that it hadn't been an approved, Medical-mediated suicide but something illicit and messy.  (source)
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    This had happened the previous Saturday night near Lake Chatulla, in an area of a state park where illicit behavior was known to be common.  (source)
    illicit = illegal or improper
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    I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers.  (source)
    illicitly = in violation of what is normal
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    There was a police car in the high-school parking lot—on the lookout for vandals, I suppose, or else to prevent the high-school students from using the parking lot and the athletic fields for illicit purposes at night.  (source)
    illicit = illegal or improper
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    Part of me had supposed that she only chose to seek because she illicitly craved the violence.†  (source)
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    There was bribery, favoritism, and racketeering of every kind, there was homosexuality and prostitution, there was even illicit alcohol distilled from potatoes.  (source)
    illicit = illegal
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    The only reason he had pocketed a bottle of this amateurish drink was that it was available for purchase in little flasks at the Berghof, intended for guests going on excursions, but certainly never for anyone illicitly wandering off and getting lost in the snow and frost of the mountains and then waiting for night to fall.†  (source)
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    Unorthodox cooking, illicit cooking.  (source)
    illicit = improper
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    At night, after ten P.M. lights out, the halls were quiet, haunted by the occasional woman in her muu-muu heading to the bathroom or the mail drop box, navigating by the distant light from a common room where someone was sitting, perhaps illicitly watching after-hours TV.†  (source)
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    Over the years Puller had seen just about every type of illicit drug there was.  (source)
    illicit = illegal
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    Often the factories produce an overrun of prototypes and sell them illicitly.†  (source)
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